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Governments and campaigners are keeping schtum when it comes to webcamming. It's time to break the silence.

Young people who had sexually abused others said if they had received more help managing pornography, then they would have been less likely to develop the abusive behaviour.
shutterstockDecember 6, 2016

In 1957, publisher Samuel Roth spent his 63rd birthday in federal prison. His appeal denied by the United States Supreme Court, he would end up serving every day of his five year sentence. The crime? He…

A legislative provision that has just come into force bans certain acts in online pornography produced in the UK, with the effect of bringing video-on-demand services into line with the British Board of…

The UK government and many other interested international bodies are duly concerned about the proliferation of internet pornography. The latest development under consideration is the use of licenses to…

Can we really separate a “nice” internet from a “bad” internet? That appears to be the thinking behind David Cameron’s statements foreshadowing the introduction of “porn filters” and search engine roadblocks…

Iceland was hailed the most feminist country in the world, after the country banned strip clubs in 2010.
Image from ShutterstockMay 20, 2013

Iceland has taken a critical step to ban online pornography – and if successful it will be the first Western industrial nation to do so. According to Icelandic interior minister Ogmundur Jonasson, the…